Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson: 'We're better than Oasis'

Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson says his band are more popular in Britain than Oasis.

The 'I Predict a Riot' hitmaker believes the Manchester rockers have "disappeared up their own a***" and the Kaisers have replaced them as Britain's favorite band.

He says, "Oasis have disappeared up their own a***. They think they are Led Zeppelin. They're not.

"Music has moved on and I think we are the band that most music fans would see as their successor."

Ricky also spoke of the band's new album - and it's already being tipped as their best yet.

He adds, "Our new album is shaping up. I reckon it�s our best stuff yet.

"I played it to our manager the other day, who has known us for over ten years, and a smile just spread across his face as soon as he heard it.

"He reckons that it�s the best material we have come up with.

"It isn�t finished but, in my mind, I know exactly where the vocals are going now and how it will sound. Mark Ronson is producing the album. He turned down a lot of people to work with us � a lot of big names, who I won�t mention.

"When he does that to work with us, we must be doing something well."

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WindFest Breezes Into West Virginia's Canaan Valley July 4-6

Weekend events to feature kite building/flying & Concert by Wheeling
Symphony Orchestra & Mountain Stage Band

DAVIS, W.Va., June 17 -- Breeze into West Virginia's
sublime Canaan Valley for a weekend packed with glorious wind-propelled
devices of every size and shape as Canaan Valley Resort in Davis, West
Virginia hosts WindFest Weekend July 4-6. Additionally, the Wheeling
Symphony Orchestra and the Mountain Stage Band will perform a free outdoor
concert at the resort Saturday, July 5, resort officials announced.

"Due to its uniqueness and family-oriented nature, Wind Fest has become
one of our biggest events of the year," said Troy Cardwell, General Manager
for Canaan Valley Resort. "Both children and adults alike enjoy making and
flying their own kites and being dazzled by the large "stunt" kites being
flown. Additionally, the incomparable Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and
world- renowned Mountain Stage Band will perform in our natural outdoor
amphitheater. This is a wonderful time to be in the mountains of Canaan
Valley!"

Cardwell said the weekend will offer kite flying demonstrations and
kite building workshops by Wings Over Washington, one of the nation's
preeminent kite hobbyist organizations. The group will also fly some of
their own creations, including an enormous 250-square foot Para-kite and
one of the largest Octopus kites in the world at 130 feet long.

Additionally, an Independence Day fireworks display will take place in
nearby Thomas, WV, beginning at dark on Friday evening, the Fourth of July.
The concert by the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and the Mountain Stage Band
will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 5.

For guests seeking additional activities, Canaan Valley Resort offers
championship golf, indoor and outdoor pools, geocaching, a summer tube
slide, hiking, biking, a paintball park, climbing wall, eurobungy, skate
park, scenic chairlift rides and much more.

Canaan Valley Resort is located an easy 3-4 hour drive from many Mid-
Atlantic markets, such as Washington, DC, Baltimore, Md. and Roanoke, Va.

For additional information or reservations contact the resort at 1-800-
622-4121, or visit the Web site at http://www.CanaanResort.com.




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Americans To Watch 8 Hours Of Video Daily By 2013

The increasing popularity of online video, video games, and mobile video will push
the number of daily hours that Americans spend in front of their TV monitors to 8
by the year 2013, according to a new study from Solutions Research Group. Currently
the average American spends about six hours a day with video-based entertainment, compared
with 4.6 hours in 1996, the study observed, noting that traditional TV viewing will
remain constant at about 4 hours, although much of it will be in the form of video-on-dem
and.

11/06/2008

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Ralph Lundsten and The Andromeda All Stars

   
Artist: Ralph Lundsten and The Andromeda All Stars

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Ralph Lundsten's Universe

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 14

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Kylie tells Britney to "reach out" for help

Brewer and Farner

   
Artist: Brewer and Farner

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Monumental Funk

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 6

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Actress Samantha Morton tells of secret stroke

British actress Samantha Morton has revealed she suffered a debilitating stroke that kept her out of the limelight for 18 months.
The 'Minority Report' and 'In America' star said she managed to keep her illness a secret with the help of friends and family.
Morton, who had to learn to walk again after the stroke, made a full recovery and gave birth to her second daughter, Edie, in January.
The Nottingham-born star told the Observer that a few days after suffering head injuries when part of the ceiling in her home fell down on her she suffered a stroke.
At the time, in 2006, the world was told Morton had pulled out of a film called 'Transsiberian' because of the ceiling accident, the Observer reported. But the stroke, and her subsequent battle to recover, happened in private.
Morton said she was helped back to health by Spiritualized singer Jason Pierce - who had just got over pneumonia - and his girlfriend Juliette Larche.
Morton told the Observer: "Their friendship knows no bounds. He was the only person I knew who understood what that was like, being near to death."
Morton has since appeared on cinema screens in 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' and as the wife of singer Ian Curtis in 'Control'.

Gene Vincent

   
Artist: Gene Vincent

   Genre(s): 
Rock & Roll
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The Beginning Of The End

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 28


   
 Wild Cat

   Year: 1959   
Tracks: 21


   
 Say Mama

   Year: 1958   
Tracks: 28


   
 Git It

   Year: 1957   
Tracks: 28


   
 Dance To The Bop

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 29


   
 Bluejean Bop! - Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 18


   
 Be-Bop-A-Lula

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 28

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Gene Vincent only had unmatched actually prominent hit, "Be-Bop-a-Lula," which epitomized rockabilly at its prime in 1956 with its sharp guitar breaks, scanty trap drums, flapping echo, and Vincent's dyspnoeic, sexy vocals. Yet his place as unmatched of the great early rock & roll singers is secure, backed up by a wealth of fine smaller hits and non-hits that rate among the best rockabilly of all time. The leather-clad, gameness, greasy-haired isaac Merrit Singer was besides one of rock's original bad boys, lionized by romanticists of past tense and gift generations attracted to his primitive, sometimes ferine style and unsubduable spirit.


Vincent was bucking the odds by entering professional music in the low place. As a 20-year-old in the Navy, he suffered a life-threatening bike stroke that almost resulted in the amputation of his leg, and left wing him with a permanent limp and considerable chronic painfulness for the remain of his life. After the accident he began to concentrate on building a musical life history, playing with country bands around the Norfolk, VA, area. Demos cut at a local wireless post, fronting a lot assembled around Gene by his direction, landed Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps a narrow at Capitol, which hoped they'd constitute rival for Elvis Presley.


Indeed it had, as by this time Vincent had plunged into full-scale rockabilly, equal to of both fast-paced exuberance and whispery, virtually sensitive ballads. The Blue Caps were one of the sterling rock bands of the '50s, anchored at first base by the stunning silvery, faster-than-light guitar leads of Cliff Gallup. The slap-back echo of "Be-Bop-a-Lula," combined with Gene's swooping vocals, lED many to error the singer for Elvis when the record number one strike the airwaves in mid-1956, on its way to the Top Ten. The Elvis comparability wasn't alone fair; Vincent had a gentler, less melodramatic style, capable of both whipping up a storm or twisting down pat to a hush.


Magnificent follow-ups like "Raceway With the Devil," "Bluejean Bop," and "B-I-Bickey, Bi, Bo-Bo-Go" failed to click in intimately as self-aggrandizing a way, although these overly ar symbolic of rockabilly at its most luxuriant and knock-down. By the end of 1956, the Blue Caps were starting time to undergo the low gear of changeless personnel changes that would extend throughout the '50s, the most crucial expiration being the difference of Gallup. The 35 or so tracks he tailor with the band -- many of which showed up entirely on albums or b-sides -- were unimpeachably Vincent's greatest do work, as his subsequent recordings would never once again capture their pristine clarity and uninhibited spontaneity.


Vincent had his second and final Top Twenty hit in 1957 with "Lotta Lovin'," which reflected his progressively tamer approach path to production and vocals, the abandon and hot atmosphere toned dispirited in favor of poppier material, more subdued guitars, and conventional-sounding backup singers. He recorded a great deal for Capitol end-to-end the breathe of the '50s, and it's unfair to displace those sides taboo of script; they were respectable, at times exciting rockabilly, only a marked disappointment in comparison with his earlier work. His act was captured for posterity in one of the best scenes of one of the first-class honours degree Hollywood films to feature film rock'n'roll & drift stars, The Girl Can't Help It.


Live, Vincent continued to rock'n'roll the house with heedless intensity level and showmanship, and he became especially popular overseas. A 1960 tour of duty of Britain, though, brought tragedy when his booster Eddie Cochran, wHO divided up the bill on Vincent's U.K. shows, died in a railroad car stroke that he was too involved in, though Vincent survived. By the early '60s, his recordings had turn much more sporadic and depress in calibre, and his chief audience was in Europe, particularly in England (where he lived for a patch) and France.


His Capitol compact expired in 1963, and he worn-out the stay of his life transcription for several other labels, none of which got him close to that retort hit. Vincent ne'er stopped-up stressful to resurrect his vocation, coming into court at a 1969 Toronto john Rock fete on the same poster as John Lennon, though his medical, drinking, and marital problems were making his life a muss, and diminishing his stage presence as well. He died at the age of 36 from a ruptured venter ulcer, one of rock's number one mythic figures.

Sri Sai Baba

   
Artist: Sri Sai Baba

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Shri Sathya Sai Bhajan

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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Chezidek

Bodies Without Organs

   
Artist: Bodies Without Organs

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Prototype

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Living In A Fantasy

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Brainchild of ex-Army of Lovers frontman Alexander Bard, the Swedish pop mathematical group Bodies Without Organs (better known as BwO) formed in 2003. The group came together when Martin Rolinski, a tennis participant who'd made waves as a finalist in Popstars, contacted Bard through producer Anders Hansson. Bard latched onto Rolinski, invited Marina Schiptjenko (once of Bard's previous project, Vacuum) along for the ride, and BwO were born. The group's name was derived from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher whom Bard (a lecturer of philosophy himself) discussed in his 2000 rule book Netocracy. Starting with their 2004 debut, Image, BwO quickly rosiness to demi-stardom in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe; Epitome yielded seven Top 40 singles and went pt in Sweden. Their second album, 2006's Halcyon Days, went amber shortly after it was released, and the album's first individual, "Temple of Love," shot to number two on the Swedish charts. BwO performed at Melodifestivalen 2005 and 2006; they managed to arrive at the semifinals in their low year of competition, only to be trounced by fellow Swede Martin Stenmarck. The group released a cover of Alcazar's "Pull through My Pride" in early 2007, and a uncut album, Fabricator, was slated to hit stores in Sweden after that year.

'Gypsies' joins growing slate at EM Media

Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine reunite for film

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- The gloves are off for writer-director Shane Meadows, who is teaming with collaborator and actor Paddy Considine to develop "King of the Gypsies" for Meadows to direct and Considine to star in.


The movie, which details the true-life story of Bartley Gorman III, last of the bare-knuckle world champion fighters, reunites Meadows and Considine four years after the duo's collaboration on "Dead Man's Shoes."


The development is buoyed by a 46,000 pound ($91,000) cash injection from EM Media, the regional screen agency funding body in the East Midlands area of England.


EM Media chief executive Debbie Williams -- in the Scottish capital to trumpet six EM Media co-financed productions that will bow during the Edinburgh International Film Festival -- said she hopes the agency will "continue to punch above its weight."


EM Media is one of the main partners in Warp X, a digital film studio established to revitalize low-budget British filmmaking set up by the U.K. Film Council's New Cinema Fund, Film4 and Screen Yorkshire. Projects have U.K. distribution through partner Optimum Releasing and air on British broadcaster Channel 4.


Williams also said that Considine's script "Tyrannosaur" will get 25,000 pounds ($49,000) to develop into a movie that will mark the his directorial debut. Considine, who is teaming with producer Diarmid Scrimshaw for Warp Films on the project, previously developed and produced the BAFTA-winning short "Dog Altogether."


The script is billed as a moving and frank insight into the life of a good woman trapped in a violent relationship with a vicious businessman.


Other projects on the eclectic EM Media slate include one from Paul King, director of the cult British TV comedy show "The Mighty Boosh." Titled "Bunny and the Bull," the film is described as a road movie "set entirely in a flat" and marks the big-screen debut for King from his own script.


Other projects on EM Media's latest slate include the Julie Rutterford-penned script "A Boy Called Dad" for Brian Percival to direct that gets 250,000 pounds ($493,000) from the European Regional Development cash pool via EM Media toward production, as well as writer Hugh Ellis and previous collaborator and director Kenny Glenaan for their project "Red Sail."


The six finished EM Media-backed movies unspooling at Edinburgh include a Glenaan and Ellis project, "Summer"; Chris Waitt's "A Complete History of My Sexual Failures"; Duane Hopkins' "Better Things"; Martin Radich's "Crack Willow"; Olly Blackburn's "Donkey Punch"; and "Mum & Dad," from Steven Sheil.

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Beholder

   
Artist: Beholder

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Heavy
   

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Discography:


   
 Lethal Injection

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Wish For Destruction

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10

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